Christopher Hansard:[Civilisation, Complexity and Collapse]

The more complex a civilisation becomes, the more crucial the role of key people with set skills within that society.

The World suffers from a homogenised culture, but the complexity still remains,

and what if through  a major pandemic or global catastrophe a lot of these key people were wiped out,

from scientists to truck drivers,  the critical infrastructures,

which are people not just technologies will fade away,

food and gas supplies would be threatened,

the dead would not be buried, many things taken for granted would be under threat.

People have forgotten that they, we, you and I are the Civilisation,

not just its products of culture and enterprise, we are also its complexity and collapse,

we are its critical mass.

We are the unnamed unspecified integer in the compexity of our civilisation.

We are brainwashed into thinking that nothing can happen to our civilisations,

our nationhood, that our country is able to look after itself,

but we are all so connected by economics and beliefs about what is success

that we are hooked into each other’s problems.

What if we had a world wide pandemic , it would happen all at once,

and the world would experience economic shifts that would reorder the world.

Global GDP would collapse significantly, a lot of people would not be able to cook the food they have and,

as infrastructure became threatened, the greatest disaster would be

the shortages in food, its production, distribution and consumption.

We are dependent on supply chains, do you know how you get the things you need?

Do you know what supply chains you are dependent on?

Study them in your neighbourhood, town and city

Supply chains come in different ways…

not just food and essentials, or utilities or transport, or supplies of money and credit

but in ideas, beliefs, fears, reactions, opinions, anything that supplies what you need and what you think you need -

all these supply chains will rust and break

we are a fragile chain, we are not invincible,

we will not outlive the planet that gave us birth

if we fear the collapse of our world,

then we need to know that civilisation, complexity and collapse,

these three, are intertwined, and that you,

we, I, me, us, them, the ‘others’ and all such divisive thinking are these

and that in time due to our civilisation and its complexity it will collapse

but we as a young species with no real understanding of where we live and why

need not hurry along with our extermination

some of us have deathwishes,

we need to heal those who do, not with threats or platitudes

but with humanity

and simplicity,

these are not just large polluters or repressive regimes or threats from weapons or any such things

but those who seek to terrorize the complex harmony that exists naturally in any civilisation,

look to the subtle threats first before the obvious to find the origins of our collapse

and we will always find it in ourselves